Ministers gooien de Minderheid in het water 1920 - 1930

Patricq Kroon made this drawing with pencil on paper, no date given, but it’s intense. Three men are holding a sack labelled ‘the minority,’ and they’re dumping it… somewhere. The faces are amazing. Kroon captures such distinctive moods in these characters through subtle variations in line and tone. The trio of men in suits and hats remind me a little of Honoré Daumier and his political lithographs, the way he fearlessly took on the powers that be. I can feel the artist wanting to express something important, something about the power dynamic of the time. You can tell by the pressure of the pencil, bearing down with conviction as he lays bare what he sees as injustice. Making images about power and the vulnerable - a conversation that spans centuries of art-making.